And by cynical you mean someone who understands that in the business world, dirty tactics often work and by you realizing this, call yourself a cynic rather than someone who can see what's really going on.
Yet suck Inte£'s tiny corporate dick even after 3 convictions for monopoly abuse.
Dumb hypocritical dipshits.
Remember... WIntel?
They were anti-competitive from way back in the 80's and 90's... talk to some OEMs and resellers... they were the microsoft of the chip world yet they got free pass after pass back then and it's even worse now.
Do the right thing... stop supporting monopolist scum!
ATi is only as viable as the monopolist Nvidia will let them be.
ATi has been very fortunate so far but they've just squeaked by in some years.
The problem is an uneducated populace... they keep rewarding anti-competitive and unethical behavior by continuing to purchase products from the monopolist.
Hopefully the thrice-convicted monopolist (intel) will beat the snot out of nvidia (recent lawsuit) and thereby reducing their effectiveness as a bully in the video card market.
Fighting fire with fire sometimes is the only way when no other solution is provided.
Yeah, Business Models (tm) are king.
No one, least of all us peons would/should dare to think we have any rights not granted to us by our multi-billion dollar overlords.
Please bend over and receive your new RFID tracking/DNA monitoring chip while you wait to get a half-eaten fruit tatooed on your forehead.
Move along citizen err "consumer asshole" (George Carlin)...
The day i support corporate rights over public ones is the day i no longer consider myself a moral person.
Nope.
Go back one more level.
Corporations exist because the public gave them permission to "make a buck" (pursuit of happiness) in order that we gain from it also.
Listening to any App£€ "user", one would think that corporate rights are the only things that matter.
Fuck corporate rights, they need less, not more!
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I wonder what a useful device like the "minisec" would be without it being straddled to a crippled-by-design product like the iXXXX.
And by cynical you mean someone who understands that in the business world, dirty tactics often work and by you realizing this, call yourself a cynic rather than someone who can see what's really going on.
They do stuff like this.
They just have a very expensive DRM dongle, in the form of App£e hardware and also a massive army of lawyers.
But you say "Yes" to O$X...
There is more than one evil empire.
Breaking out of jail implies that you, the owner of the device is doing something illegal and/or immoral.
Call it what it really is... removing the DRM.
Those chips belong to you and you have the right to access them, reprogram them, make them do what you want.
Anti-competitive is evil no matter who does it.
Evil always trumps illegal in my book.
STEAM !IS! without a doubt, the single most sinister evil concoction that the publishers have come up with.
It is the "frog boiling" technique masterfully manifest.
Remember back when STEAM was first coming out... everyone was up in arms about it....
Take a look now and see people even seeing it as "adding value"...
Having to fork over money/authorization to resell (first sale doctrine) your games.
Offline mode = having to get permission every once in a while.
STEAM made DRM palatable and acceptable to the masses.
In a few more years, people won't even remember when there wasn't DRM of one kind or another.
Boil the frog, indeed. It works/ed so well.
If that's not insidious, then I don't know what is.
No one has mentioned the other "800lb monopolist" in this story...
Inte£.
Do you think they seriously want ANY competition to their x86 hegemony/monopoly?
They brought out that POS Atom to try and compete in the embedded market and extend the x86 lock-in.
They ruined the OLPC's original plans because they were scared shitless that AMD would gain marketshare and mindshare.
Inte£ got M$ in major trouble with the "Vista capable" fiasco...
Don't forget there is room for more than 1 evil empire...
Wintel duopoly mean anything to you?
Inte£ was an abusive monopolist long before most people think. Starting back in the late 80's.
They are always treated with kid gloves but M$oft gets no quarter....
It always makes me chuckle when some Linux noob quotes "M$" but running on an Inte£ cpu/video.
Yet suck Inte£'s tiny corporate dick even after 3 convictions for monopoly abuse.
Dumb hypocritical dipshits.
Remember... WIntel?
They were anti-competitive from way back in the 80's and 90's... talk to some OEMs and resellers... they were the microsoft of the chip world yet they got free pass after pass back then and it's even worse now.
Do the right thing... stop supporting monopolist scum!
Inte£ free?
Hypocrite Camp and be done with it?
Or a nice way to launder money...
It's very anti-competitive you mean.
Take a good hard look at what they do and have done and that is an inescapable conclusion.
Barely.
ATi is only as viable as the monopolist Nvidia will let them be.
ATi has been very fortunate so far but they've just squeaked by in some years.
The problem is an uneducated populace... they keep rewarding anti-competitive and unethical behavior by continuing to purchase products from the monopolist.
Hopefully the thrice-convicted monopolist (intel) will beat the snot out of nvidia (recent lawsuit) and thereby reducing their effectiveness as a bully in the video card market.
Fighting fire with fire sometimes is the only way when no other solution is provided.
That's precisely the point.
They couldn't legally enforce their illegal lockdown so they used DRM.
Nintendo was sued for this but unfortunately they won.
DMCA and anything resembling it, is illegal, immoral and downright evil. (we're working on the illegal part).
"their" computers?
Hehe, you've already lost when you believe a device sitting in your home is "theirs".
Jailbreaking is probably some pro-copyright term that a "PR" crony came up with.
Call it what it really is... Removing the DRM! Taking off the Digital Hand Cuffs!
You sound like an App£€ supporter (zealot).
Their (corporate) rights end at my front door.
Once the system is in my house, i own all of it, including but not limited to, the software, the hardware and the firmware (aka everything).
Copyright only protects unauthorized distribution, not granting companies immoral monopolies over things they sell you (the public).
I own the chips and i have the right to reprogram them to my needs.
I own the software (yes own, that particular copy, not the copyright) and i can, with the help of 3rd parties, change it to meet my needs.
I now advocate for less corporate rights and more personal/public/customer rights.
95+ years of copyright length, DMCA, DRM will/needs to die a horrible fiery death.
Yeah, partnering with a thrice-convicted monopolist really changed things...
"Also, not quite news"
But it does wonders to keep a certain fruity DRM vendor in the public eye constantly...
People still buy processors from a thrice-convicted, unrepentant monopolist.
3 decades of anti-consumer anti-competitive activity and still they come up smelling like roses...
So, which is it?
Is the DMCA a good thing or bad thing?...
Yeah, Business Models (tm) are king. No one, least of all us peons would/should dare to think we have any rights not granted to us by our multi-billion dollar overlords. Please bend over and receive your new RFID tracking/DNA monitoring chip while you wait to get a half-eaten fruit tatooed on your forehead. Move along citizen err "consumer asshole" (George Carlin)... The day i support corporate rights over public ones is the day i no longer consider myself a moral person.
Nope. Go back one more level. Corporations exist because the public gave them permission to "make a buck" (pursuit of happiness) in order that we gain from it also. Listening to any App£€ "user", one would think that corporate rights are the only things that matter. Fuck corporate rights, they need less, not more!